Kaplan would make a great grandfather: When not creating astonishing (and astonishingly loud and wild) noise on his guitar or keyboard, he was peppering the proceedings with just that sort of neo-Borscht Belt humor, grinning gregariously, his kind face framed by an only somewhat-receded curly Jewfro.

While he left his official post and the urban scene to return to mountains and fields, his life in the country does not seem to have been socially reclusive; much of his poetry shows him to have been gregariously involved with neighbors and visitors.

In Bangladesh it is common in dry regions and often occurs gregariously. It is locally known as tit begoon, gota begoon or hat begoon in Bengali and commonly known as turkey berry, susumber, gully-bean thai eggplant or devil's fig.

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